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What Will Be Talked About At The Ubuntu 11.04 Summit

10-07-2010, 05:50 PM

Phoronix: What Will Be Talked About At The Ubuntu 11.04 Summit

Besides talking about performance at the Ubuntu Developer Summit later this month in Orlando for Ubuntu 11.04, there will also be discussions and tracks for hardware compatibility, Ubuntu as the project and community, application selections and defaults, how to empower application developers, cloud infrastructure, and multimedia...

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Very slow on start-up, has bugs (some of them years old), it crashes sometimes and it isn't very intuitive.

I didn't notice how bad it was until my classmates had to use it a week and pointed out every little error to me. I did look up the bugs, but none of them where new.

Slow on start-up? If you turn off Java support OpenOffice takes two to three seconds to start on moderate hardware. With an SSD it comes down to around one second.

Bugs? Yes, but the MS counterpart has them, too. Intuitive? It's more or less a carbon copy of Office 2003. This wasn't intuitive to use either? Having used Office 2003/OpenOffice for years, I find the ribbon interface a pain in the ass. So, as far as intuitivity goes, a large part of it is a matter of taste.

BTW they all agreed that they like open alternatives better when quality would be equal to the closed ones.

Because... they wouldn't have to download their applications from some seedy warez sites?

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Slow on start-up? If you turn off Java support OpenOffice takes two to three seconds to start on moderate hardware. With an SSD it comes down to around one second.

I don't know what you consider to be "moderate hardware" but a SSD surely is not in my book. As for being slow on start up: Open Office requires three times the time it takes MS Office 2010 to start up in whine on my net-book. I'd say that's pretty bad.

Bugs? Yes, but the MS counterpart has them, too. Intuitive? It's more or less a carbon copy of Office 2003. This wasn't intuitive to use either? Having used Office 2003/Open Office for years, I find the ribbon interface a pain in the ass. So, as far as intuitivity goes, a large part of it is a matter of taste.

I haven't found one yet in 2010 and I have been using that since release. We have found a couple of them in OO and that was only in one week. Sure, MS Office has bugs but they aren't getting in my way. The ones in OO are. Crashing or hanging or layout that won't change anymore is something that should really be looked into. It is not something minor.

As for the ribbon interface; it works great but it was not what I was aiming at. MS Office 2003 is also more intuitive then OO. Things just aren't always logical in the OO menu's to me. And yes, it is a matter of taste. But it was a general consensus over here so I guess that counts for something.